Onkel Buck:[i26.photobucket.com image 320x213]My dad can do this creepy smile. Im almost 40 years old and it still gives me the weirds me out/Twilight Zone where the guy has the devil locked in the basement creeped me out too.

Ah, yes. The chauffeur from Burnt Offering. That was a creepy smile. However the creepy factor was undermined when I saw Return From Witch Mountain, where actor Anthony James again co-starred with Bette Davis, but this time as her doofus nephew.

There's something in that episode that's even creepier, if you can imagine. At least it is to me now as an adult.

The episode is called "The Corbomite Maneuver." If you find yourself with 48 minutes or so to spare, watch it online or something. The ending is (presumably unintentionally) ten times as scary as that rubber alien head.

championgoober:Oh and these guys too. My boys used to love this show. I was pretty convinced max and emme were going to be trapped one day in their land and eaten alive. Made me so nervous to watch![www.freewebs.com image 200x200]

The dragon on Tic-Tac-Dough scared the pee-pee out of me when I was a very little kid.

Most people on here won't know who I am talking about but if you grew up in Indiana,you will know.As a child Sammy Terry scared the crap out of me.I would sneak onto the livingroom at midnight,turn on the t.v. and as soon as I heard his evil laugh,I'd run screaming bloody murder to my oldest brother's bed.I got to meet him about 6 yrs ago and altho it was cool it kinda ruined it for me because he was so old he made me think of him as a grandpa.But man I loved being so scared as a child.

Okay, I'll stop with the snark and list my own nightmare. As a young kid, during the summer, a group in the neighborhood would go to the movies. We always saw G rated Disney fare. None of use were over 8 years old. On this day, the parent in charge took us to see Latitude Zero

Cesar Romero is the villain, and there is a brain transplant scene which involves a winged lion. Freaked me the hell out and gave me nightmares for a few years. I still vividly remember this film 40 years later. It was made by a Japanese director. One day I will get a DVD and see if I can bury all the fear from years ago.

minoridiot:I thought that Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka was scary, particularly when he started his yelling.

Think about it. He practically stole Gilda from G.E. Smith and found the love of his life.Tried to have children. Couldn't. Lost her in '89.Then starts filming Wonka. At the time he is still grieving.Hew has to play a guy who needs a child to take over his legacy.The props are all of half a man, or half of anything. Quite telling given he has lost half of him self or his better half. As a method actor, he probably channeled his rage at having to play the part of a man finding his heir with non wife to share the joy with.Or something.Do I get a gold star now?

vudukungfu:Think about it. He practically stole Gilda from G.E. Smith and found the love of his life.Tried to have children. Couldn't. Lost her in '89.Then starts filming Wonka. At the time he is still grieving.

vudukungfu:minoridiot: I thought that Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka was scary, particularly when he started his yelling.

Think about it. He practically stole Gilda from G.E. Smith and found the love of his life.Tried to have children. Couldn't. Lost her in '89.Then starts filming Wonka. At the time he is still grieving.Hew has to play a guy who needs a child to take over his legacy.The props are all of half a man, or half of anything. Quite telling given he has lost half of him self or his better half. As a method actor, he probably channeled his rage at having to play the part of a man finding his heir with non wife to share the joy with.Or something.Do I get a gold star now?

No, because the Wilder Wonka movie was released in1971, so unless Gene Wilder has access to a time machine, your theory fails,

dallylamma:The_Sponge: dallylamma: There was a movie that I saw part of as a kid that really terrified me. I've been trying to figure out what it was for years, maybe one of you can help.

From my vague recollection it was a Sword and Sorcery type flick. There were two scenes that burned into my memory and still kind of freak me out today.

The first was children being sacrificed by being thrown into a furnace or lava pit. The hero manages to rescue a kid and smuggles it back to the kid's parents in a large sack carried over his shoulder.

The second involved a terrified man running through a group of motionless cloaked figures that looked like Ring Wraiths or Dementors. The man runs into one of the figures and is absorbed into the cloak, seconds later the cloak opens and a collection of slime covered human bones drops on the ground in front of the figure.

There was nothing scarier than Robert Stack narrating stories about brutal murders, unexplained phenomena and strange disappearances. "The killer is still at large. He may be anywhere in America. He may be in your home town at this very moment. Maybe even outside your window. What was that noise just now? Maybe you should go outside and check it out."

vudukungfu:minoridiot: I thought that Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka was scary, particularly when he started his yelling.

Think about it. He practically stole Gilda from G.E. Smith and found the love of his life.Tried to have children. Couldn't. Lost her in '89.Then starts filming Wonka. At the time he is still grieving.Hew has to play a guy who needs a child to take over his legacy.The props are all of half a man, or half of anything. Quite telling given he has lost half of him self or his better half. As a method actor, he probably channeled his rage at having to play the part of a man finding his heir with non wife to share the joy with.Or something.Do I get a gold star now?

I grew up in a house that only had antenna and i wasnt allowed to watch anything other than PG movies. When I saw a commercial for nightmare on elm street, I started having freaking nightmares about freddy krueger. Of course when I watched the movies when I was old, they're funny mostly. except for the first one.

Actually from time to time I still have terrifying dreams about freddy, and i'm 31

/has a lot of crazy dreams that don't involve him too// One, I had this time-reseting watch. I would hit a button and reality would snap back to the time in the day I pressed. I started messing with it, and while it would reset time, reality was starting to distort. Like I was talking to someone, and when I had the convo with the person after hitting the button a few times, one of their arms was longer than the other and they werent making sense. Eventually reality got completely terrifying, and I broke the watch, and was stuck in this weird place.

MonkeyAngst:BunkoSquad: WHY am I just now finding out that the BBC made a Tripods series in the '80s?!?!?

/runs to You Tube

Wow! I hadn't thought about Tripods in decades. I remember reading the comics version in Boy's Life.

You read the series, I hope. Still some of my favorite books. Although I can't imagine how they got a "scantily clad" pervo version of it, considering that in the books, the Tripod domination had reverted Earth to sort of a pre-Enlightenment agricultural setting.

sovietski:Bathia_Mapes: sovietski: I wish the Lot would be made into a feature film, but then it would probably suck.

The 1979 miniseries got remade as a made-for-TV movie in 2004, and yes, it sucked. It had Rutger Hauer playing Barlow and he wasn't even close to being creepy looking as Barlow in the original miniseries.

Rutger Hauer as Barlow

Barlow from the original miniseries

Yeah, I remember that. I didn't watch it simply because, to me, it lacked that ohholyshiat factor.

Then again, I can't really picture any actors/actresses that would do the Lot justice.

/read the book years after I'd seen the miniseries...will NOT own a home with stairs.

I read the book before the miniseries, but I think they did a decent job even if Barlow had more of a Nosferatur look than in the novel. IMHO, it made his more menacing.